Dr. Marcum, you're
telling us that obesity is not
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necessarily a
disease and that's fine,
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but can we come up with
a better word than obesity?
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That does not sound
like a very loving word.
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You're obese or you're fat...
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Is there another
way of saying that,
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that would not be
quite so off-putting?
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You know, that's good because
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words have power in
meaning. Absolutely!
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Words change the way we
think, the way we react.
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So we talked about originally
that we want to approach this
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loving and judging not
judging... very important.
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So what's a word that we can say
that's loving and not judging?
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And I want to invite all
of our viewers and listeners,
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this is something that
you can all help us with -
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find that word
because 6 out of 10 people
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are in this -
we're in this together.
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We all want to help
each other to be better.
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Let's think of some more...
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How about... "A
little more of me - chunky"
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No, I don't like "chunky"
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When I see someone who
is carrying extra pounds,
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I don't think obese or
fat, I think "unhealthy"
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That is an open door -
to have that extra weight is
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an open door, so
maybe something like
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"shy of optimum health"
or "not quite optimum health"
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or.. I don't know what
to do, this is interesting.
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What's a loving word for obese
or fat... what do you think?
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Someone once told me
that there's more of me now.
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There's more of you...
that was a little bit nicer
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than saying, "Man,
you've put on a lot of weight"
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But anyway, that's something
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that we all need
input on, Charles.
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But you know, this is
such an important issue
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that we approach it
from a biblical standpoint,
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and I think if Christ was here,
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I think He would approach it
from a loving and not judging.
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I don't think He would
come at it from a fat or obese,
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I would simply say, "I
want you to be healthy"
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Yeah, right! I
want you to be healthy,
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so here are some things
you can do to be healthy,
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and those things actually
will help you to lose weight.
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And some people can carry extra
weight and still be healthy.
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You know, some
people carry extra weight.
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But we probably need to talk
about there are some medical
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conditions, Charles, that
can cause people to carry extra
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weight and they don't even
know it... And there's nothing
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that they can do about it
or have been doing about it.
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Well, there are some things
they can do - some people...
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There are some things that
in families that metabolisms
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run slow and
that's the way it is...
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But there's a new hidden...
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A lot of people
have low thyroid, okay,
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and thyroid is the hormone
that regulates your entire body.
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It measu... all the
cells, all the energy, thyroid.
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So one of the things
that people always check
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is to see if you
have low thyroid,
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because if you have low thyroid,
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that can cause you
not to burn calories.
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Some people have enough thyroid
but it can't get in the tissue.
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They're calling that
type 2 thyroid disease,
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but they usually have
other conditions as well.
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Some people just
have slow metabolisms
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just because they're
not moving around as much
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or drinking enough
water or getting enough rest.
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Those are all things
that are fairly easy to do
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to speed up your metabolism.
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If you see
someone who is overweight,
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can't you say, "Well,
your metabolism is too slow"
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Well that's better
than obese or fat! YES, YES!
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You have a slow metabolism!
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Well that's not
too bad! All right
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Yeah, a slow metabolizer.
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We could call them an "SM"
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Because it's all
about metabolism. Yeah
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As-a-matter-of-fact,
that's the first question
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that came in to
heartwiseministries. org
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on this subject... We
have to answer that one.
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"What can I do to
speed up metabolism?"
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What is the answer? Okay
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That's a great
question and a couple of things
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that they can do is start
exercising or moving every day.
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And if you've
never done it before,
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we want you to start
slow and build up with it.
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You might even want to
check with your doctor,
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but I tell people to
start doing 1 or 2 minutes,
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build up to 6 minutes,
build up to 12 minutes,
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and if you can get up to 45
minutes a day, that's great,
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if you don't hurt your joints.
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Some people that
want to lose weight,
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or speed up the metabolism more,
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can even do it longer every day,
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so that will speed
up your metabolism.
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ENOUGH WATER - Water
is the universal solvent;
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70% of our body is water.
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We have to have enough water.
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REST is
important for metabolism.
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When you're
rested, you feel more,
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your cells work
better, you tend to stay on the
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night and day cycles better.
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NUTRITION is very
important for your metabolism.
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There are some foods that
just make people feel slow,
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and sluggish and the body just
doesn't know what to handle.
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And lots of chemicals, lots
of toxins, lots of fried foods,
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lots of heavy stuff...
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That stuff just lays in
you and doesn't do much.
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ESPECIALLY that
meal late at night.
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It just lays
there and gets digested;
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it doesn't move; the
bowels don't move it through;
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the circadian rhythms -
your body doesn't handle,
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doesn't speed up as much.
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Those are some
simple things you can do.
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Other things you can do is
make sure your thyroid is good.
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Make sure you don't have a
condition like sleep apnea.
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Make sure you're not on a
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medication
that's slowing you down.
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Right now, 1 in 5 Americans
are on more than 5 medications.
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Some of those can
slow your metabolism down;
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certain pain pills, sleeping
pills, pills for your brain,
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different things can also
start to slow your body down.
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So all are these are little
things that can help speed up
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your metabolism.
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A lot of people don't
realize that every year,
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your metabolism
goes about 1% down.
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So let's say you
weigh 150 pounds...
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BY DEFAULT? Yes By default, okay
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Yes, as we age, our
metabolism slows down. All right
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It doesn't speed up, Charles
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No, it doesn't
speed up... I wish it did
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A baby's metabolism is faster
than a 90-year-old's metabolism.
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Things just go slower and it
just doesn't work as efficiently
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So if you weight 150 pounds,
and don't do anything different,
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you're going to gain
about 1-1/2 pounds per year.
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Over 10 years, that's 15 pounds.
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See what I'm saying? So
you have to do something more
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...either cut back the amount
of calories or increase your
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metabolism - something more
to sort of keep that balance.
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Well, you've opened a door here.
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Which is easier to
do, because we want to do
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things that are easy for us.
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Which is easier to do,
speed up the metabolism
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or cut down on the fat?
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I think it's got to be a
little bit of both. Really?
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Yeah, I think
you've got to do both;
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you've got to eat well,
as well as cutting back,
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as well as thinking
about what you're doing.
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We eat a lot more food
than we need to eat now,
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and unfortunately we do and
we're just now understanding
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what's going on and
in talking about this
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in the New York Times Service
article that hit the presses
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and talking about naming
this a disease and, oh boy,
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I think we're going
to miss the big boat,
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and all of a sudden,
we're going to have a lot more
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people on medicines, and a
lot less people understanding
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the reason why... Thinking that
that's going to take care of it!
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Yes and not dealing
with the reasons why,
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we're going to have a lot
of downhill health problems
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where we should get
back to loving people
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and not judging them,
develop relationships,
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see if we can learn from them -
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what might be causing the
reasons and just start moving
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ahead one reason
at a time. All right
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The second question
from heartwiseministries. org
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By the way, we
invite you listener too,
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to send in the questions so that
we can add them to our program.
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"Do you think the new weight
loss medications will be useful
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or should I just
join the "Biggest Loser" -
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there's that program
again, you were talking about.
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The 2 medicines that are out
there, we talked about them...
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I don't think that they are
going to solve the reason why.
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I know people are saying,
"These are the best things ever
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and it's going to take away
your appetite and it going to
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make you lose weight and
it might help your metabolism"
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But appetite is a Godsend,
we're supposed to eat food,
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we're supposed to hungry for it,
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we're supposed to feel
satisfied when we're done!
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My question is to the people
that are on those medicines,
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"What are you going to do, take
those the rest of your life?"
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You know, take
them for 20 or 30 years,
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are you going to
take that medicine,
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or are you going to get
at the cause of the problem?
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And most, I found in
the medical profession,
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that most medicines are
only supposed to be given for
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a short period of time.
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They're not supposed to be
given day in, year in, year out
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because that's when you
start to have more side effects.
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So I don't think
that these medicines...
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Let's look at the evidence...
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In the past, "Fen-Phen" didn't
solve the problems. That's right
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"Phentermine"
didn't solve the problem.
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"Redux" did not
solve the problem.
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We had one that even made it so
that you quit binding your food,
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so it just passed through you.
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THAT wasn't the
problem! So unnatural!
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So I think that we have to get
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back to these 2
principles I outlined.
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We have to learn
how to love each other,
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put someone else's
interest above our own,
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meet them where
they're at, not judging them,
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and finding places that
we can work with each other,
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not only doctors, but everyone
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that's interested in
helping other people.
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Little things that we can do...
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whether it be - let's
go out and do a walk today,
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let's not drive here
today, let's take the stairs!
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We can even be subtle
about it - in helping the world
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to speed up their metabolism
and gain better health.
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I heard you do this yesterday.
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We were talking on the
phone and you were driving up
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here to 3ABN and you said,
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"I'm going to stop at a park
and I'm going to go for a walk"
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You were doing
exactly what you're saying...
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That helps your
metabolism! That did!
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I like this idea
of the low metabolism,
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and speed up your metabolism.
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So, here's the next question...
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"Why are the
rates of low metabolism
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rising so fast in this country?"
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Let's put it that
way... Why is that happening?
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There are lots of people
that have theories on this,
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and I'm going to
throw out a theory, okay?
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First of all, we're not
as active as we should be,
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and another theory out there
is - there are so many toxins
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in our environment
that's paralyzing some of our
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cellular receptors.
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Now this gets a
little complicated...
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In our cells, we
have little energy packets
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called the "mitochondria"
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That makes energy,
it makes metabolism,
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makes us go!
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Sometimes, in the
world that we've been under,
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we've had so many toxins that
we're not even made to deal with
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and I could go on and on about
the list from mercury to lead,
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to dioxins, to this, to
this yellow dye to that dye.
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Sometimes, some people say that
these are having some type of
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chemical damages on our
cells so our cells aren't
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near as efficient as doing.
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Not it's probably just
not one thing, Charles.
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It's probably that,
we're not as active,
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there's more
mental health problems,
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and when people have
mental health problems,
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they tend to eat
more comfort foods.
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It makes them feel better.
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It's probably multifactorial,
but it's the world we live in.
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It's just not simple one thing.
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That's why I don't think
there's a simple one solution.
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That's why I don't
think the simple medicines...
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I think it going to be looking
at it from different aspects
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based on each person,
meeting them where they're at,
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helping them along their way,
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looking at the big
picture and then coming up with
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a specific plan for
each individual person.
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We need to look at ourselves
when we look in the mirror
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and we need to say, "You know,
I have a metabolism problem"
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"I need to speed this metabolism
up and what can I do to do that"
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And Dr. Marcum has mentioned
many things that we can do
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to speed up the metabolism
- everything from exercise
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to diet and to
helping our environment.
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This may be
difficult for some people.
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It may be a real challenge
for them to speed their
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metabolism up as they should.
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When you have your
metabolism sped up, of course,
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your weight drops down.
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So everything you've said
here to help us with our weight,
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the good news is - it also
helps us with our disease rates,
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and everything else
including cardiology.
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Yeah, lowers cancer,
lowers all these things.
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It makes our health much better;
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diabetes, high blood
pressure, all these things,
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doing this is going to
improve as well... All right
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When we come back,
Dr. Marcum will have some
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final words for us, so
stay right where you are.
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We've been talking
about a very sensitive subject
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for many people out there,
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but, you know, we
have to talk about it
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because it's a real issue,
not only for each one of us,
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but we might be able to help our
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families do
better or feel better.
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And we're not giving
any specific solutions,
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but naming obesity an
illness and throwing a lot of
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medicines, that might
not be the best answer...
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especially over
long periods of time.
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What I'm suggesting that
we leave with you today is
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2 things...
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#1 is love people
and not judge them,
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and realizing what works
for them might not work for you,
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but you got to meet
them where they're at,
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and pray for them and
continue to encourage them
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because we're all
on this earth together
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wanting to help each other.
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We reviewed some ways
to speed up your metabolism
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from drinking water to resting,
to moving all the body parts.
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Well one of the things I want
to do right now is pray for you,
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so let's bow our heads...
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Heavenly Father, There are
some people out there that need
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to have better health and
they need You in their lives
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to help them to
show them the way to go.
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You are the Ultimate
Prescription for us, Father,
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and we thank You for You
loving us and not judging us.
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Please help us to do the
same as we approach the world...
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is our humble prayer. Amen
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I want to thank you for joining
us on the Ultimate Prescription
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and you can use this program,
not only to send us letters
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to our website at
heartwiseministries. org
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but show this to your friends.
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Someone might need
some encouragement.
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They might need
someone to pray for them
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because we really believe
it's this moving together of
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modern medicine, lifestyle,
as well as letting the
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Ultimate Prescription,
Our Heavenly Father,
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the relationship with Him
GUIDE us in our best health.
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So we want to thank you
for joining us and remember...
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LOVE NOT JUDGE and we'll
be back with you next time.
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